Kerry Tribe in 'Hollis Frampton: From Form to Idea to Form of Idea' →

Kerry Tribe
February 19, 2026 at 6pm | The University of Chicago Center in Paris

Kerry Tribe, Critical Mass, 2013, Single channel video with sound, 25 min approx (Edition of 5)

A segment of Kerry Tribe’s Critical Mass (2010-2013) is included in Axioms of Vision: Echoes of Hollis Frampton, part of the larger symposium Hollis Frampton: From Form to Idea to Form of Idea organized in partnership between Service de la collection film, Musée national d’art moderne - Centre Pompidou / CERILAC, Université Paris Cité / IRCAV, Sorbonne Nouvelle / LESA, Aix-Marseille Université / The University of Chicago Center in Paris / Université de Montréal / UQAM / York University (Toronto) / IUF (Institut Universitaire de France).

Axioms of Vision: Echoes of Hollis Frampton features a selection of moving image works that approach Hollis Frampton’s films as a set of propositions that test the limits of the formal systems he developed. The screening is curated and introduced by Clint Enns. Frampton’s rigorous investigations into the material and conceptual limits of cinema—film as language, as system, as thinking—provide both the scaffolding and the provocation for the program. Some works adopt his structural clarity with near-devotional precision, while others answer with satire or mischief, pulling at the threads of his seriousness to expose its comic underside. In this oscillation between homage and parody, the program resists the stability of a single reading, instead staging a field of echoes, ruptures, and counterpoints. What emerges is not a monument to Frampton but a living dialogue, where his axioms become function as invitations—coordinates for reimagining the possibilities of vision itself.

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"Fantastic Voyage": A Guided Walk with Kerry Tribe →

Kerry Tribe | Orange County Museum of Art

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Join visual artist and filmmaker Kerry Tribe for a 10-minute guided walk suitable for all ages and levels of mobility. Walk slowly around your home or briskly around your neighborhood — any time and place you can get ten minutes without distraction.

As the crow flies: Kerry Tribe and Rirkrit Tiravanija Opening August 17th

As the crow flies
Kerry Tribe
Rirkrit Tiravanija

August 17, 2019 - September 30, 2019

Opening reception:
Thursday, July 25, 5–7 pm

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“Mein Herr looked so thoroughly bewildered that I thought it best to change the subject. “What a useful thing a pocket-map is!” I remarked. “That’s another thing we’ve learned from your Nation,” said Mein Herr, “map-making. But we’ve carried it much further than you. What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?” “About six inches to the mile.”

“Only six inches!” exclaimed Mein Herr. “We very soon got to six yards to the mile. Then we tried a hundred yards to the mile. And then came the grandest idea of all! We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!” “Have you used it much?” I enquired. “It has never been spread out, yet,” said Mein Herr: “the farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well. Now let me ask you another question. What is the smallest world you would care to inhabit?”

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Kerry Tribe has had solo exhibitions at the Anderson Collection, Stanford University, Palo Alto; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco (SF MoMA); Parque Galeria, Mexico City' 356 Mission Rd., Los Angeles; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Carpenter Center, Cambridge; and the Contemporary Art Center, Irvine.  She has staged performances at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco and the TATE Modern.  In 2017 she received an Herb Alpert Award in Film and Video, a California Community Foundation Fellowship in 2015, an Artadia Award in 2013, and both a USA Artist Fellowship and Creative Capital Grant in 2012.  In 2016 the City of Los Angeles awarded Tribe a public commission to produce Exquisite Corpse, a film about the Los Angeles River, which will screen nightly on the High Line in New York, Summer 2018.

Rirkrit Tiravanija was born in 1961 in Buenos Aires. For over twenty-five years, he has focused on the social ties connecting audience, artwork and artist, blurring the boundary between art and life. He is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts at Columbia University, and is a founding member of The Land Foundation, an educational-ecological project in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He is the winner of the 2010 Absolut Art Award and the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize awarded by the Guggenheim Museum. Notable exhibitions include On Air at the Centre Pompidou (2012), Less Oil More Courage at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum (2009), and retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2010), Serpentine Gallery (2005), and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2004). He recently presented Soup / No Soup at La Triennale 2012 in Paris, for which he transformed the main nave of Grand Palais into a communal banquet featuring a meal of Tom Ka soup. do we dream under the same sky?, Chaos Omotesando, Tokyo, (2018); The NG Teng Fong Roof Garden Commision: Rirkrit Tiravanija, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore, (2018)

For further information please contact: Brian Butler or Susan Sherrick at (323) 938 5822.

KERRY TRIBE: "EXQUISITE CORPSE" SCREENING AT DESCANSO GARDENS FOR THE GROUP EXHIBITION "LA REINA DE LOS ÁNGELES"

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Exquisite Corpse Screening for La Reina de Los Angeles

Descanso Gardens

1418 Descanso Dr, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011

Thursday, October 4, 7pm

Without the Los Angeles River, there would quite simply be no Los Angeles. While the precise geography is unknown, historians have estimated it’s changed course at least nine times in the first half of the nineteenth century alone. La Reina de Los Ángeles will present a discussion of our current relationship with water, using the Los Angeles River as an entry point. Through contemporary art works, documentary films, historic materials and special programming, La Reina de Los Ángeles will explore the history, infrastructure and community around this critical resource.


Originally screened in 2016 at the CURRENT:LA Water Public Art Biennial, Exquisite Corpse is a 51-minute film that traces the 51-mile length of the LA River from its origin to its ocean terminus, capturing its varied landscapes, neighborhoods, creatures, and communities along the way. The film is presented as part of the La Reina de Los Ángeles exhibition curated by Debra Scacco at the Sturt Haaga Gallery.

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